Why does a state with the tenth biggest economy in the world ask the feckless, illegitimate federal government anything? The feds only have the power we give them. Stop giving it to them and let them starve in their fake D.C. bubble.
Seriously. WTF was Abbot thinking. Dozens if not hundreds (we will see how high the death toll os once all the wellness checks are administered)of people died because of his poor decisions and Biden's callous inaction.
The days of State Governments being polite to the Federal Government are probably coming to an end. They will have to do what is in the best interest of the people and fight it out later.
I have family down there - some I care about, and those that well, are no longer family. Even in either case, Biden caused this problem by lack of action. Fuck him. Entirely. And Kamala can ride along right behind him.
Honestly. How does anyone think this would turn out differently? Texas, in their lawsuit with no standing, sided with Trump against Biden. Biden's mind may be shit but his puppeteers have a long memory.
I'm sure any mention of this will be scuttled as a "conspiracy theory" by the media. Something was off about this whole situation from the beginning. Texas doesn't just lose all it's power and the ability to distribute power all of a sudden. Sure enough there was massive fuckery going on behind the scenes.
Yep, the media immediately wanted to talk about the Texas grid this, the Texas grid that. If only Texas would have hooked up to one of the other two national grids (I know this week we are only supposed to talk about them as one grid)...
Texas needs to get the rest of the state off of those two grids, along with most other remaining utilities. Then add a legal framework which allows private power generators to get immunity for providing emergency power. Also ERCOT needs to fix it's $9,000/MWh problem.
Great article,
What people do not understand is the power grid is one big ditch and you pour water into it and people around the long ditch take what they need. Windmills are a water source that pours into that ditch. Since you don't want the water to overflow you want to turn down the other water sources when the water is coming from Wind. So when wind stops, being able to cover for it in a crisis is a problem.
that's a very good explanation. thanks for the link.
Texas has encouraged the building of wind turbines. They do this, in concert with the U.S. government, through direct subsidies and by paying for wind generation, rather than paying for electricity purchased. This guarantee of revenue means generating companies do not have to consider market demand, they can build wind turbines endlessly with no risk. They can even pay others to take their power and then be reimbursed by the government with our tax dollars! Since 2006, federal and Texas subsidies to wind power, have totaled $80 billion, this foolishness is explained well on the stopthesethings website.
The wind power excess capacity has distorted the generation mix in Texas to a dangerous and unbalanced level. Natural gas, coal and nuclear generating companies have too little revenue to increase or fortify their plants, since wind can generate as much as it wants and is guaranteed revenue for the electricity it generates.
The subsidies and mandates must be stopped and our baseload (aka emergency) capacity increased and fortified. Coal and nuclear power generation must increase. It should be clear to everyone now that, while natural gas is a perfect minute-by-minute grid stabilizer, since it is an on-demand electricity generator, it is vulnerable to weather disruptions. Texas’ current emergency baseload capacity is too small and too vulnerable.
Guaranteed if he broke the law and kept Texans warm. And if it ever came out that he broke the law, the Texans he SAVED would have his back 100%. But no... he cucked out and begged the government for a fucking waiver.
There was no emergency, actually. This isn’t unprecedented and there was plenty of energy and capacity to supply power and gas to the state.
What he did was make a move in which he thought federal money would come his way by calling an emergency. The feds had there own ideas anyway and throttled power output using the federal powers act and the excuse of environmental concerns. If you read the order you’ll see using the power plants and generators at levels necessary to produce the required output would exceed federal emissions limits.
Abbott was doing what all politicians do and he should be cut down at the knees for it. The feds are simply anti- American and need to be eradicated.
It's the duty of the governor to ignore and nullify Biden. The mistake was to even think Texas had to ask for permission in the first place.
Why does a state with the tenth biggest economy in the world ask the feckless, illegitimate federal government anything? The feds only have the power we give them. Stop giving it to them and let them starve in their fake D.C. bubble.
It's because we have a fence riding pussy in the governorship that does nothing but try to keep getting re-elected.
Seriously. WTF was Abbot thinking. Dozens if not hundreds (we will see how high the death toll os once all the wellness checks are administered)of people died because of his poor decisions and Biden's callous inaction.
Biden screwed TEXAS.
Abbott should never ask the feds permission for anything that has to do with the wellfare of Texas.
But Abbot just bent over and took it.
And will bow when Biden lands in Texas for a visit next week.
When and where is he showing up to Texas? Asking for 74M+ frens.
Bidens camp said he may be headed to Texas this week. That may have been a ruse though.
The days of State Governments being polite to the Federal Government are probably coming to an end. They will have to do what is in the best interest of the people and fight it out later.
I have family down there - some I care about, and those that well, are no longer family. Even in either case, Biden caused this problem by lack of action. Fuck him. Entirely. And Kamala can ride along right behind him.
Honestly. How does anyone think this would turn out differently? Texas, in their lawsuit with no standing, sided with Trump against Biden. Biden's mind may be shit but his puppeteers have a long memory.
I'm sure any mention of this will be scuttled as a "conspiracy theory" by the media. Something was off about this whole situation from the beginning. Texas doesn't just lose all it's power and the ability to distribute power all of a sudden. Sure enough there was massive fuckery going on behind the scenes.
Yep, the media immediately wanted to talk about the Texas grid this, the Texas grid that. If only Texas would have hooked up to one of the other two national grids (I know this week we are only supposed to talk about them as one grid)...
Texas needs to get the rest of the state off of those two grids, along with most other remaining utilities. Then add a legal framework which allows private power generators to get immunity for providing emergency power. Also ERCOT needs to fix it's $9,000/MWh problem.
We need a 9/11 style commission on this, and a strongly worded letter!!
I prefer threatening to write a strongly worded letter over the actual letter itself.
Can you imagine the terror that sinks in to the hearts of the potential recipients of said letter?
I’m sure they lose sleep and everything (not)
Kek!
Always better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission. Abbot should have pressed forward.
But honestly why bother asking? Just fucking do it and work for Texans not Bidens
This article is an excellent primer on what happened and why by a based Texas scientist https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/2021/02/20/the-texas-energy-disaster/
Great article, What people do not understand is the power grid is one big ditch and you pour water into it and people around the long ditch take what they need. Windmills are a water source that pours into that ditch. Since you don't want the water to overflow you want to turn down the other water sources when the water is coming from Wind. So when wind stops, being able to cover for it in a crisis is a problem.
that's a very good explanation. thanks for the link.
Texas has encouraged the building of wind turbines. They do this, in concert with the U.S. government, through direct subsidies and by paying for wind generation, rather than paying for electricity purchased. This guarantee of revenue means generating companies do not have to consider market demand, they can build wind turbines endlessly with no risk. They can even pay others to take their power and then be reimbursed by the government with our tax dollars! Since 2006, federal and Texas subsidies to wind power, have totaled $80 billion, this foolishness is explained well on the stopthesethings website.
The wind power excess capacity has distorted the generation mix in Texas to a dangerous and unbalanced level. Natural gas, coal and nuclear generating companies have too little revenue to increase or fortify their plants, since wind can generate as much as it wants and is guaranteed revenue for the electricity it generates.
The subsidies and mandates must be stopped and our baseload (aka emergency) capacity increased and fortified. Coal and nuclear power generation must increase. It should be clear to everyone now that, while natural gas is a perfect minute-by-minute grid stabilizer, since it is an on-demand electricity generator, it is vulnerable to weather disruptions. Texas’ current emergency baseload capacity is too small and too vulnerable.
What a cuck.
Asked for a waiver. 😂
With leaders like that in Texas, the state deserves whatever the progressives are scheming this tune.
Should have ignored the refusal.
TIME TO REMOVE FAUX JOE AND HIS LEGION FROM "POWER". WITH THAT SAID, ABBOTT SHOULD HAVE DEFIED THE ORDER TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS OF TEXAS.
Every red state needs to start organizing state militias.
You can't make this kind of stuff up... Liberals in Texas voted to limit their power and kill themselves to save the planet...
The Gov can go suck an egg. He should be on TV daily talking about how the illegitimate president hurt texas
Guaranteed if he broke the law and kept Texans warm. And if it ever came out that he broke the law, the Texans he SAVED would have his back 100%. But no... he cucked out and begged the government for a fucking waiver.
It's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission.
Mr. Trump would have hugged your family until they were warm and comfortable again.
This is proof that Texas doesn't need to be apart of US and could secede if motivated.
States need to learn to start sending the guard to power plants when needed to increase in spite of epa.
There was no emergency, actually. This isn’t unprecedented and there was plenty of energy and capacity to supply power and gas to the state.
What he did was make a move in which he thought federal money would come his way by calling an emergency. The feds had there own ideas anyway and throttled power output using the federal powers act and the excuse of environmental concerns. If you read the order you’ll see using the power plants and generators at levels necessary to produce the required output would exceed federal emissions limits.
Abbott was doing what all politicians do and he should be cut down at the knees for it. The feds are simply anti- American and need to be eradicated.
that's a gross and deliberate misrepresentation. why tho?
“Never let a crisis go to waste.”